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An Orc ex-Imperialist who truly found himself alongside his new brethern, The Companions, became a proud member of their pack, found the love of his life in Aela and remembered what it meant to believe in something bigger than himself and rejoined the Imperial Army Ranks.

A Breton healer who lost his family to Thalmor during the war. He's now a skooma addict, and at constant odds with how he should treat High Elves. He's decided to go against his believe in doing no harm as healer and start practicing destruction and conjuration magic, which led him to the College of Winterhold for instruction...

An Imperial of the Nibenay region. Some believe he was once a Vigiliant of Stendarr, others, simply a man who lost something or somebody to Daedra. Whatever the reason, he spends his time scouring the country side of Skyrim looking for work that will pay him to rid the land of violent beasts and supernatural beings. Ignoring the proposition of some crazy bitch in Riverwood (I mean, really, this Dragonborn stuff is Troll shit), he joined the Dawnguard, jumping at the chance to annihilate vampires. Then, somebody put a hit out him, not the Dark Brotherhood - he can handle those jokers - but some kind of cult members who ganged up on him. Oh oblivion, no. Nobody puts a hit out him and gets away with it...

Finally, my Nord. Leaving from his home town of Bruma to find his fortune in Skyrim, he was caught at the border, managed to escape. Bright eyed and naive, he managed to join The Companions, rise up their ranks and received their gift. He was uneasy about it but accepted. Some where along the way, he received a ring that didn't allow him to control his gift. He started to like not being able to control it. A job in Markarth went wrong, he was thrown in a cell and promised himself, once he got out, he'd make all of them pay. He did, and later found himself in position to prove himself to the leader of the Dark Brotherhood, people who seem to understand exactly what he is, what he was always meant to be...the ultimate monster.

So that's how I roleplay. I don't write anything down, I just tend to have a rough idea of how I want to start and the experiences in the game shape where the character goes. I enjoy doing this stuff because the game otherwise, is very banal.

It's double-edged sword; Bethesda gave us a blank slate and a lot of people can't or feel that they shouldn't have to handle that. They should be providing us the characterization for the money we're paying them. But that's just a preference and there's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with you and you're inability to role play the way I do. Just play something different or hold out for Bethesda to change the way they make games.

See, what's weird is that I love to role play in PnP games like DnD, Pathfinder, WoD, etc. I just don't like it in games, and I think it's because I'm so limited. What I mean is, yeah, I can imagine that my character has this rich backstory and these interesting motivations, but it doesn't really affect the world in any way. In a PnP game, your character and his story change the game world for you and the other players. In Skyrim, whenever I try to role play the way I see people like you doing - because it does sound fun - I just feel like I'm playing pretend. I can't really get into it. If you can, though, that's great. It sounds awesome.